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Students calling for the strengthening of the department held several demonstrations last spring, including a day's boycott of classes. These students charged Harvard administrators with failing to search aggressively for tenured professors and working to undermine the department. Afro-Am has one and one half tenured professors--Southern and a semiretired professor...
Southern's resignation follows the departure of three junior faculty members in Afro-Am-Mottl, who did not receive tenure; Moore; and Rampersad, visiting professor of Afro-American Studies. Moore and Rampersad had one-year appointments...
ENRIQUE LOPEZ, "Hank" to his friends, should never have come to Harvard. Lopez jokes about it. In his last year as an undergraduate at the University of Denver, he explains, a bigshot economics professor took him under his wing, doctored the young man's transcripts to make it look like Lopez had minored in economics, and sent him packing to Cambridge--as a graduate student in Economics. Lopez, who had never really taken any economic theory, went to classes here but, as he put it, "They might have been talking in Swahili." He made it through one year, however...
...some sense of direction and settled on the survey courses--I'll read everything from Plato to Marx, I thought excitedly. Then I went to my first class, and fought for standing room with hundreds of other people. I listened (there were too many people to see) as the professor told us to fill out index cards; she would select and admit to the course a fraction of those assembled...
...inane lecture followed inane lecture, I realized, with increasing dismay and anger, that this was it. Harvard: a professor mumbling about arcane and vapid subjects, in love with the sound of his own voice, while I sat resentfully, one of hundreds. In sections, wan-looking graduate students droned on and on about trivial points in lectures while pathetically overeager students fell over each other to answer stupid questions. My knowledgeable proctor had screwed up again--he hadn't warned me that huge survey courses are probably the least challenging and most poorly taught classes at Harvard. I felt academically betrayed...